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Gettone
Read more: GettoneBut do you have enough? Mobile phones are like brunettes and text messages. There’s no before them. The quaint frustration that once dogged Rome long-distance callers is ancient history. Like Julius Caesar, say. Or maybe looking before you leap. When I first arrived in the city in 1975 international call…
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Pipes
Read more: PipesI just do small jobs… My plumber is demoralized, disinvogliato is the word he uses. Imagine water forced to flow in reverse and you get the lament’s symbolic gist. But my pipes are not the problem. Those he can repair, for only €100 in fact, a bargain when it comes to fixing…
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France
Read more: FranceKennedy and de Gaulle in 1962. Outsized Charles de Gaulle chafed at the hint of orders. From the United States. From Europe. From his own unions. His intuition was France’s, or so he believed. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? Nonsense. He’d test in the Pacific at will. Superpower first-strike force? He’d…
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Satanic verses
Read more: Satanic versesPoster on the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1979. Commemorative anniversary as it involves September 11 is a rite of brooding. Two prime-time stunts warmed to the mood. The first was an ongoing proposal to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero; the second an ill-advised plan to burn Korans…
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Dante’s winds
Read more: Dante’s windsCelebrities in motion. Storms called Harold. Storms called Maude. South Atlantic hackles the Caribbean has known to fear for millennia. But the wired north is less laissez faire. Storms are now celebrities, presaged by agitated men and women who wave their hands over pulsating maps. Since a girl called Katrina…
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Marcel Albert
Read more: Marcel AlbertAlbert, center, with Soviet air force mechanics in 1941. The death of French air ace Marcel Albert provides backdoor insight into why Europeans and Americans remain ruled and ruler. His life symbolizes the complication represented by shifting 20th century loyalties. Paris-born Albert, a Renault mechanic, joined the incipient French air…
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